Details of where and when remain to be ironed out, R. Christopher Di Mezzo said on Thursday. The event will be open to the public and press, he said.
Vermont and Maine are the only Super Tuesday states that Bloomberg has yet to visit, according to Di Mezzo. On March 3, those states will be among more than a dozen that will vote in presidential primaries.
“He’s running a national campaign, and Vermont is one of our 50 states,” Di Mezzo said of Bloomberg. “He’s competing everywhere.”
WCAX-TV first reported news of Bloomberg’s visit. The billionaire former mayor of New York City joined the Democratic primary field last November.
While he faces long odds, Bloomberg has used about $250 million of his vast personal wealth to attack President Donald Trump in television ads. The 77-year-old candidate has indicated he’d spend $1 billion during the campaign and would even use that cash to support the eventual nominee in the event it’s not him.
He’ll face tough sledding in Vermont, home of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Di Mezzo, the state director, is the campaign’s first hire in the state. On hiatus as a spokesperson for the Vermont Democratic Party, Di Mezzo only started on Saturday.
“We’re looking to open an office in Burlington, hopefully in the next week or so,” Di Mezzo said.
So is he confident in Bloomberg’s odds?
“Absolutely,” Di Mezzo said. “I think he has a chance everywhere he’s competing.”
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Interesting this is a story and not that Bernie is up by 12 points in NH. Can’t conjure it up on Digger either. Models of impartiality, they are.
Wow, this is surely an event not to miss! There are 50 States Mr. Di Mezzo. How come he’d not in Iowa? May as well blow his money there, too!
Can’t wait to see if he makes the debate stage at some point. I guess there’s a few openings.
I agree with Lassy2 that Vermont media outlets should not be running stories about candidate Bloomberg, but should only be reporting on Bernie. And only positive stories about him, of course. I agree with Lassy2 that the fact that a candidate for President whose name is not Bernie Sanders is coming to Vermont is simply not news that is worthy of being reported. 7D should just ignore it. In fact, as of this minute all Vermont media outlets should stop reporting on anyone or anything else and should devote absolutely all of their print and on-line space only to Bernie. That’s it. Just Bernie. Got it? Let me repeat: 7D, VT Digger, and all other Vermont media should only report on Bernie and nothing else. Not the weather, not car crashes, not the impeachment of Trump, not other presidential candidates, not what’s going on in the Vt. State House — nothing. Just exclusively Bernie. That would be fair, rational, reasonable, and sensible.
Good grief.
Knowyourassumptions: The point isn’t that this is a story, the point is that a 14 point gain in a reliable poll isn’t news to Seven Days or to Vt. Digger. It’s not that hard. Just reword any number of other stories like usual.
There are probably professionals out there who could try to deal with your obsession. Believe it or not, there are actually other things going on in the world today besides Bernie. Like, oh, I don’t know, a President who is being impeached? A multitude of people running for President who AREN’T Bernie Sanders? I know that’s hard to understand.
Speaking of unreported, newsworthy items…..How about lowest unemployment rate for ALL in history and a booming economy! Thank you President Trump!!!
All the excitement of having this multi billionaire Slither into the state of Vermont and tell us how he will make things better while lying through his teeth.
Michael Bloomberg is out to destroy our constitution…
There is no way that Bloomberg should get near the presidency.
I am sure those in our legislature and Senate that he sends money to will really be excited by this event.
A strong message needs to be sent to Michael Bloomberg that money cannot buy the presidency and it shouldn’t be buying our legislators!
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“How about lowest unemployment rate for ALL in history and a booming economy!”
How about it? It occurred in 1944 and was about 1/2 of the current rate. Thank you FDR. https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-ra…
I’m curious to hear what Bloomberg has to say during his visit. As I understand it, he has been using some of his wealth to promote some very altruistic causes. Unlike our president who is finding his office a wonderful opportunity to “blindly” increase his wealth by spending an inordinate amount of leisure of time at establishments that happen to bear his name, Bloomberg has spent some of his time and money trying for the betterment of the country and planet. Just because they come from the same income bracket (although Trump has been far less successful) doesn’t mean they share the same outlook on the world.
Hey JohnGreenberg, do you think the unemployment ‘rate’ in 1944 had anything to do with the all hands on deck effort to support the US war machine in WW2? From what I’ve read, everybody was working back then.
Hmm, what happened in 44. I want to say there was some event going on.
I know Mike Bloomberg. Had breakfast with him in NYC, when I considered an anchor position at 1010WINS.
He’s genuine, capable, and reasonable. Like Bernie, he cares. But he also knows that to promise is one thing, to propose programs than can actually be supported financially, quite another.
He did a great job as mayor of a city of over 7 Million, he’ll do well for our state one tenth that size.
The fact that there was a war in 1944 does not change the fact that unemployment was lower than it is now, although it provides a rationale. The statement to which I replied was factually incorrect. THAT was my point.
But in any case, the WWII rationale disappears when applied to 1951 and 1952 when the rate was also lower than today’s (I didn’t bother to cite 1945 when it was lower as well, since the WWII rationale applies to about 3/4 of the year).
The claim made by Trump and his acolytes is simply wrong. It has no basis in fact. They don’t care; I do.
It is probably the same reason that Bloomberg is visiting Vermont….
I am sure Senator Phil baruth and representatives Martin Lalonde and Maxine grad will be meeting with him…
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20191125/b…
Two points to be made:
1) Unemployment claims are low, because the boomer generation is checking out of the labor market, or working part time jobs. It’s not because the economy is booming; it is NOT. It is limping along at just over 2% growth, with 1.5% inflation, give or take. And many global markets are doing worse. This is a fragile time, not a boom time.
2) I like Bernie. Gave him money, in fact. But I also like Bloomberg. He’s honest, genuine, socially conscious, and realistic about government’s role. The fact that he put himself outside the media circuses masquerading as ‘debates’, is a strategy. The DNC is obviously in thrall to, or captive of, media opportunities.
Trump and his supporters pray that Bernie will be the nominee, if not the nominee then at least the winner of many primaries who gets screwed at the convention by the super delegates sending his naieve young brownshirt followers into a rage.